Water Babies – Classes to teach your baby to swim
Our lessons are carefully structured to suit children with any learning or physical disability and all instructors are as standard trained in special needs swimming. classes are designed to be none competitive and all children will progress onto the next

Financial Support

Carer's Allowance
Carer’s Allowance is a taxable benefit to help people who look after someone who is disabled. You do not have to be related to, or live with, the person that you care for.

Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
Disability Living Allowance – sometimes referred to as DLA – is a tax-free benefit for children and adults who need help with personal care or have walking difficulties because they are physically or mentally disabled.

Sponsors

Support and Information

A Guide to Carers Rights and Benefits
Carers UK have produced a guide setting out what rights carers have and how they can get financial help, practical help and help with combining work and caring.

About the Blue Badge Scheme
The Blue Badge scheme allows drivers of passengers with severe mobility problems to park close to where they need to go. Find out where you can use your badge, how to display it and how to use it abroad.

Contact a Family
With over 30 years of experience, our vision is that families with disabled children are empowered to live the lives they want and achieve their full potential, for themselves, for the communities they live in, and for society.

We Connect Now
We Connect Now is dedicated to uniting people interested in rights and issues affecting people with disabilities, with particular emphasis on college students and access to higher education and employment issues.

Support Groups

Bolton Smiley Faces
Bolton Smiley Faces is a parent-led Down’s syndrome support group. Our aim is to support families and carers and all those with an interest in Down’s syndrome in Bolton and the surrounding area

Bury Down's Syndrome Support Group
The aim of our group is to support children of all ages with Down’s syndrome and their families within the Bury area, including Ramsbottom, Tottington, Prestwich, Whitefield and Radcliffe.

South Manchester Down's Syndrome Support Group
The South Manchester Down’s Syndrome Support Group is parent-led. We aim to support families and carers and all those with an interest in Down’s syndrome in south Manchester and the surrounding area.